Forges-les-Eaux

A French city of 3,642

€1,530/m²to buy

1,660 hof sun a year

5 minto a hospital

3,642residents

Forges-les-Eaux is a French city of 3,642 in Seine-Maritime. Homes go for about €1,530 a square metre. 1,660 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€1,530/m²to buy, $165 per sq ft

€9.1/m²to rent, a month

€1,140property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€22,710median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,660 hof sunshine a year

135rainy days a year

40°Fwinter average, 4.2°C

63°Fsummer average, 17.3°C

8days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

10 minto the nearest station

53 minto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

5 minto the nearest hospital

nonepharmacies within 15 minutes

5 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

0.4break-ins per 1,000 residents

6.1assault and robbery per 1,000

5other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

3,642residents

15 km²6 square miles

3%of homes are second homes

9%of homes stand empty

93%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Seine-Maritime

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Figures from the DVF land registry, INSEE, Météo-France, Arcep, the SSMSI, FINESS and the DREES, rebuilt four times a year. Travel times are road approximations, and prices in the smallest communes are estimated from neighbouring ones. Photograph from Wikimedia Commons.